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A  HISTORICAL  SKETCH 

OF  THE 

BOARD  OF  FOREIGN  MISSIONS 

OF  THE 

PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 


53  Fifth  avenue,  nkw  York. 


1837-1888. 


Board  of  Foreign  Missions 

OF  THE  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH, 

53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  BOARD. 

1885- 1888.  Charles  H.  Parkhurst,  D.D.,  R.  R.  Booth,  D.D.,  Hooper 

C.  Van  Vorst,  LL.D.,  George  S.  Coe,  Darwin  R.  James. 

1886- 1889.  William  M.  Paxton,  D.D.,  John  D.  Wells,  D.D.,  Robert 

Carter,  William  A.  Booth,  Ezra  M.  Kingsley. 

1887- 1890.  Charles  IC.  Imbrie,  D.D.,  George  Alexander,  D.D.,  James 

P.  Wilson,  D.D.,  Henry  Ide,  Warner  Van  Norden. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  BOARD. 


John  D.  Wells,  D.D.,  President. 

Mr.  William  A.  Booth,  Vice-Pres. 

John  C.  Lowrie,  D.D., 

Frank  F.  Elunwood,  D.D..  ^  Secrltaries. 
Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D., 

John  Gillespie,  D.D., 

William  Rankin,  Esq.,  Treasurer. 


Letters  relating  to  the  Missions,  or  other  operations  of  the  Board,  should 
be  addressed  to  one  of  the  Secretaries,  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 

Letters  relating  to  the  pecuniary  affairs  of  the  Board,  or  containing 
remittances  of  money,  should  be  sent  to  William  Rankin,  Treasurer,  same 
address. 

Form  of  Bequest. — The  Board  is  incorporated  by  an  Act  of  the  Legislature 
of  the  State  of  New  York.  The  corporate  name  to  be  used  is — The  Board 
of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of 
America. 

Certificates  of  Honorary  Membership  are  issued  on  the  payment  of 
thirty  dollars ;  and  of  Honorary  Directorship  on  the  payment  of  one  hundred 
dollars. 


!  V  . 


A 

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HISTORICAL  SKETCH 


OF  THE 


of  Foreign  Missions 


OF  THE 

PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH, 


1837-1888. 


<2.  H.  Jones  &  Co.,  Printers,  114  Fulton  Street,  New  York. 

18S8. 


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NOTE. 

The  following  sketch  has  been  prepared  at  the  suggestion  of  the  last 
General  Assemby.  The  fact  that  it  is  but  a  sketch  is  sufficient  apology  for  its 
brevity  and  incompleteness.  Its  necessarily  fragmentary  character,  however,  is 
less  to  be  regretted,  as  much  valuable  information  on  the  subject  is  already 
within  reach  in  “Presbyterian  Missions,”  by  the  late  Rev.  Ashbel  Green,  D.  D., 
the  “Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,”  written  by  our  senior 
secretary,  Rev.  John  C.  Lowrie,  D.  D.  ;  “Sketches  of  the  Presbyterian  Board 
of  Foreign  Missions,”  issued  by  the  Board  in  1872;  “Historical  Sketches  of 
Presbyterian  Missions,”  published  by  the  Woman’s  Foreign  Missionary  Society, 
and  carefully  revised  to  a  recent  date,  and  our  treasurer’s  “Hand  Book,” 
packed  with  important  and  well  arranged  matter,  all  of  which  are  laid  under 
tribute  in  the  present  sketch. 

New  York ,  May ,  1888. 


ORGANIZATION. 


The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  was  organized  in  the 
City  of  Baltimore,  October  31st,  1837,  *n  accordance  with  the 
following  action  taken  by  the  General  Assembly  on  June  7th, 
of  the  same  year.  “  Resolved ,  that  the  General  Assembly 
shall  superintend  and  conduct  by  its  own  proper  authority 
the  work  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  by 
a  Board  appointed  for  that  purpose,  and  directly  amenable  to 
said  Assembly.”  This  action  marks  the  culmination  of  a 
discussion  covering  a  period  of  years,  as  to  whether  mis¬ 
sionary  operations  should  be  carried  on  by  voluntary  socie¬ 
ties,  or  by  the  Church  in  its  organized  capacity,  as  had  been 
the  case  with  the  home  missionary  work,  and  that  among  the 
Aborigines.  The  foreign  missionary  spirit,  however,  and 
systematic  effort  to  preach  the  Gospel  to  the  heathen,  ante¬ 
dated  the  organization  of  the  Board,  and  even  of  the  General 
Assembly  by  many  years. 

The  first  official  action  of  the  General  Assembly  looking 
to  active  participation  in  the  work  of  Foreign  Missions,  was 
taken  in  1817,  when  it  united  with  the  Reformed  Dutch 
Church  and  the  Associated  Reformed  Church,  in  forming 
“The  United  Foreign  Missionary  Society,”  whose  object  was 
“  to  spread  the  Gospel  among  the  Indians  of  North  America, 
the  inhabitants  of  Mexico  and  South  America,  and  other 
portions  of  the  heathen  and  anti-christian  world.”  In  1826 
this  society  was  merged  into  the  American  Board.  In 
November  1831,  the  Synod  of  Pittsburgh,  which  from  its 
organization  in  1802  had  exhibited  marked  missionary  zeal, 
organized  the  “  Western  Foreign  Missionary  Society”  for  the 


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purpose  of  “  conveying  the  Gospel  to  whatever  parts  of  the 
heathen  and  anti-christian  world,  the  Providence  of  God 
might  enable  the  Society  to  extend  its  evangelical  exertions.” 
Under  the  fostering  care  of  such  noble  men  as  Drs.  Francis 
Herron  and  Elisha  P.  Swift,  its  first  President  and  Corres¬ 
ponding  Secretary,  this  Society  had  succeeded  in  planting 
missions  among  the  American  Indians,  also  in  India  and 
Africa,  and  was  contemplating  entering  China,  when  on  the 
organization  of  the  Board  by  the  Assembly,  it  cheerfully 
transferred  its  entire  work.  Up  to  the  Re-union  in  1870,  the 
Board  was  composed  of  120  members,  chosen  by  the  Assem¬ 
bly  from  different  sections  of  the  Church,  from  whom  an 
Executive  Committee  was  appointed  of  members  residing  in 
or  near  New  York  City,  the  Board’s  headquarters.  At  the 
Re-union,  the  membership  of  the  Board  was  reduced  to 
fifteen,  and  the  Executive  Committee  dispensed  with.  Prior 
to  1870,  the  Board  was  presided  over  successively  by  Rev. 
William  W.  Phillips,  D.  D.,  Rev.  John  M.  Krebs,  D.  D.,  and 
Mr.  James  Lenox.  At  the  re-organization  of  the  Board  in 
1870,  Mr.  Lenox  was  chosen  President.  He  was  succeeded 
in  1873  by  the  Rev.  William  Adams,  D.  D.,  at  whose  death  in 
1880,  Rev.  Win,  M.  Paxton,  D.  D.  was  chosen,  and  continued 
to  serve  until  his  removal  to  Princeton  in  1884,  when  the 
present  incumbent,  Rev.  John  D.  Wells,  D.  D.  was  elected. 
Concerning  the  other  executive  officers,  our  treasurer’s  Hand 
Book  says:  “The  first  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Board 
in  1837  was  the  Hon.  Walter  Lowrie,  who  resigned  one  of  the 
most  honored  and  remunerative  positions  at  the  National 
Capitol,  to  become  the  servant  of  the  Church  in  this  office, 
and  which  he  filled  with  conspicuous  ability  and  devotion 
until  the  year  before  his  death  in  1869,  when  bodily  infirmities 
compelled  his  retirement.  Rev.  John  C.  Lowrie,  who  was 
obliged  to  withdraw  from  his  mission  work  in  India  through 
failure  of  health,  was  chosen  Assistant  Secretary  in  1838, 
holding  also  after  1845  a  pastoral  charge  until  1850,  when  he 


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became  a  full  co-ordinate  Secretary  with  his  father,  and  is 
now  the  senior  of  his  associates  in  age  and  office.  In  1853, 
Dr.  John  Leighton  Wilson,  then  a  returned  missionary  from 
Africa,  was  chosen  third  Secretary,  continuing  until  1861, 
when  he  resigned  and  became  the  first  Corresponding  Secre¬ 
tary  of  the  Foreign  Mission  Board  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  Southern  States.  This  vacancy  was  filled  in 
1865  by  Dr.  David  Irving,  until  his  death  in  1885.  Dr.  Irving 
had  been  a  missionary  in  India,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
appointment  was  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Morristown,  N.  J.  In  1871,  Rev.  Frank  F.  Ellinwood,  D.  D., 
who  had  just  closed  his  successful  work  as  secretary  of  the 
Re-Union  Memorial  Fund,  was  chosen  as  associate  of  Drs. 
Lowrie  and  Irving.  In  1883,  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.  D., 
was  called  from  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  to  become  the  fourth  Secretary,  and  in 
1885  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  Dr.  Irving  was  filled 
by  Rev.  John  Gillespie,  D.  D.,  pastor  of  Westminster  Presby¬ 
terian  Church,  Elizabeth,  N.  J.  The  present  corresponding 
secretaries  are  in  the  order  of  their  appointment,  Drs.  Lowrie, 
Ellinwood,  Mitchell  and  Gillespie. 

The  first  Treasurer  of  the  Board  on  its  removal  to  New 
York  was  Mr.  James  Paton,  a  prominent  merchant  of  this 
city,  who  served  without  salary  for  three  years.  Then  it  was 
decided  unwise  to  have  mission  funds  involved  in  the  uncer¬ 
tainties  of  mercantile  business;  moreover,  much  inconvenience 
was  found  in  having  this  office  distant  from  that  of  the  Board, 
and  in  1841  Rev.  Daniel  Wells,  who  had  been  rendering 
assistance  in  that  department,  became  responsible  treasurer. 
His  health  failing  in  1848,  Charles  D.  Drake,  Esq.,  now 
Ex-United  States  Senator,  and  Ex-Chief  Justice  of  the  Court 
of  Claims  in  Washington,  was  elected  his  successor.  After 
two  years’  service  Mr.  Drake  resigned,  and  the  present 
incumbent,  William  Rankin,  Esq.,  then  of  Cincinnati,  where 
he  had  practised  law  about  thirteen  years,  was  invited  to  this 


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office,  and  entered  upon  its  duties  November  1st,  1850.” 
After  a  noble  service  of  nearly  thirty-eight  years,  conspicuous 
for  the  fidelity,  ability  and  success  with  which  the  Board’s 
treasury  has  been  managed  even  during  perilous  financial 
crises,  Mr.  Rankin,  admonished  by  advancing  years  and  the 
increasing  burdens  of  the  office,  tendered  his  resignation  in 
March,  1887,  to  take  effect  on  the  appointment  of  a  successor. 
The  resignation  was  only  recently  accepted  by  the  Board  with 
deep  regret,  and  with  earnest  expressions  of  appreciation  of 
Mr.  Rankin’s  character  and  services.  Mr.  Gilbert  K.  Harroun 
has  just  been  appointed  to  succeed  Mr.  Rankin,  and  will  enter 
on  the  duties  of  the  office,  June  nth. 


WOMEN’S  ORGANIZATIONS. 


Intimately  connected  with  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions 
are  the  various  Women’s  Boards  and  Societies,  with  their 
large  retinue  of  auxilaries  and  bands.  From  the  beginning  of 
the  modern  movement  of  “  Woman’s  Work  for  Woman,”  the 
Board  has  cordially  welcomed  the  co-operation  of  the  conse¬ 
crated  women  of  the  Church,  while  they  in  turn  have  loyally 
accepted  the  position  of  co-laborers  with  the  Board.  Reserv¬ 
ing  to  itself  the  authority  vested  in  it  by  the  General  Assem¬ 
bly  of  organizing  and  directing  the  work,  including  the 
appointment  of  missionaries,  and  the  disbursement  of  funds, 
the  Board  nevertheless  acknowledges  gratefully  the  invaluable 
service  rendered  by  the  ladies’  societies  in  many  directions, 
notably  in  deepening  and  extending  the  missionary  spirit 
among  the  churches;  in  securing  re-inforcements  for  the 
missions ;  in  adding  immensely  to  the  revenue  of  the  Board, 
and  in  the  affectionate  and  efficient  supervision,  which  in 
harmony  with  the  Board’s  plans,  they  give  to  woman’s  work 
in  the  several  mission  fields. 

The  Women’s  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  stands  first 
among  these  in  the  order  of  organization,  with  headquarters 
in  the  Mission  House,  New  York.  In  April,  1870,  a  society 
which  had  been  organized  in  the  City  of  New  York  for 
missionary  effort  in  the  territories  of  the  United  States,  was 
re-oreranized  as  the  “  Ladies’  Board  of  Missions  of  the  Pres- 
byterian  Church.”  This  Society  contemplated  work  both  in 
the  home  and  foreign  fields,  and  at  once  became  auxiliary  to 
the  Boards  of  Home  and  Foreign  Missions,  under  the  presi¬ 
dency  of  Mrs.  James  Lorimer  Graham.  In  1883  it  was 


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deemed  best  to  separate  the  two  branches  of  the  work,  and 
the  foreign  department  was  at  once  organized  as  the  “  Women’s 
Board  of  Foreign  Missions.”  Mrs.  Graham  having  died  just 
before  the  separation  was  effected,  Mrs.  O.  P.  Hubbard  was 
chosen  President  of  the  Board,  a  position  which  she  continued 
to  fill  with  great  acceptance  till  her  death  in  1887.  After  an 
interval  of  some  months,  Mrs.  Henry  N.  Beers  was  chosen  to 
fill  the  vacancy.  The  present  officers  of  the  Board  are : 
President,  Mrs.  Henry  N.  Beers;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  C.  P.  Hartt; 
eighteen  Vice-Presidents,  and  twenty-five  Honorary  Vice- 
Presidents  ;  eight  Secretaries  for  Home  Correspondence,  and 
two  for  Foreign  Correspondence,  a  Recording  Secretary,  an 
Assistant  Treasurer,  and  a  Board  of  Managers  numbering 
forty-seven.  In  connection  with  this  Board  are  25  Presby- 
terial  Societies  in  nine  States,  comprising  483  Women’s 
Societies,  97  Young  People’s  Societies,  and  244  Sunday- 
School  Societies  and  Bands.  The  aggregate  receipts  of  the 
Board  since  its  organization  are  $522,034,  besides  boxes  sent 
to  missionaries  valued  at  $15,822. 

The  Women’s  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  with 
headquarters  in  the  Publication  House  in  Philadelphia,  was 
organized  October  4th,  1870,  with  the  following  officers: 
President,  Mrs.  W.  E.  Schenck ;  Vice-Presidents,  Mrs.  Z. 
M.  Humphrey,  Mrs.  D.  A.  Cunningham,  Mrs.  E.  P.  Wilson, 
Mrs.  William  Strong;  Recording  Secretary,  Mrs.  M.  B. 
Grier;  Home  Corresponding  Secretary,  Mrs.  S.  C.  Perkins; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  J.  D.  McCord ;  and  a  Board  of  twenty 
Managers.  Mrs.  Schenck  after  a  faithful  service  of  eighteen 
years,  still  continues  by  the  choice  of  the  Society  the  honored 
President,  while  with  her  are  associated  twenty-five  Vice- 
Presidents,  three  Home  and  three  Foreign  Corresponding 
Secretaries,  two  Special  Object  Secretaries,  a  Recording 
Secretary,  and  a  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Julia  M.  Fishburn,  together 
with  a  Board  of  thirty-five  Directors.  Connected  with  this 


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Society  there  are  49  Presbyterial  Societies  in  seven  States, 
comprising  1,275  Auxilaries,  and  1,450  Bands,  and  the 
receipts  from  the  beginning  amount  to  $1,647,618. 

The  Women’s  Presbyterian  Board  of  Missions  of 

the  North-west  was  organized  in  Chicago,  on  December 
15th,  1870,  with  Mrs.  R.  W.  Patterson,  President;  Mrs.  William 
Blair,  and  Mrs.  George  H.  Laflin,  Secretaries;  Mrs.  John  V*  0 
Farwell,  Treasurer;  and  a  corps  of  Vice-Presidents  and 
Managers  constituting  an  Executive  Committee.  Some  two 
years  previous  a  Union  Society,  composed  of  members  of  Con¬ 
gregational  and  Presbyterian  Churches  in  the  North-west,  had 
been  formed  in  connection  with  the  American  Board,  but  at 
the  Re-union  those  identified  with  the  Presbyterian  Church 
withdrew  and  united  in  forming  the  present  Board.  Mrs. 
Patterson  was  succeeded  in  the  presidency  by  Mrs.  A.  H. 
Hoge,  and  later  by  Mrs.  Benjamin  Douglass,  the  present 
incumbent.  Mrs.  Hoge,  after  a  distinguished  and  laborious 
service,  at  the  urgent  request  of  the  Board,  occupies  the 
honorable  position  of  President  Emeritus.  Meanwhile,  a  list 
of  44  Vice-presidents  has  been  added,  the  Secretaries  have 
been  increased  to  nine,  three  Home,  five  Foreign,  and  one 
Recording,  and  Mrs.  C.  B.  Farwell  has  been  chosen  Treasurer. 
The  Board  has  1 1  Synodical  Societies  and  69  Presbyterial 
Societies  in  connection  with  it,  embracing  1,008  Auxiliary 
Societies  and  514  Bands,  and  has  received  since  its  organiza¬ 
tion,  $706,277. 

The  Women’s  Presbyterian  Foreign  Missionary 
Society  of  Northern  New  York  was  organized  in  1871. 
Its  present  executive  officers  are,  President,  Mrs.  H.  B.  Nason, 
of  Troy,  N.  Y.;  Recording  Secretary,  Miss  E.  A.  Darling  ; 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  Chas.  R.  Church ;  besides  one  General 
Secretary,  four  Corresponding  Secretaries,  and  two  Assistant 
Treasurers.  This  Society  has  101  Auxiliaries  and  119  Bands 


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in  the  four  Presbyteries  of  Albany,  Troy,  Champlain  and 
Columbia.  Receipts  from  the  beginning,  $119,  983. 

The  Women’s  Presbyterian  Board  of  Missions  of 
the  South-west,  with  St.  Louis  as  its  official  centre,  was 
organized  for  Home  and  Foreign  work  in  April,  1877.  Its 
officers  are,  President,  Mrs.  James  H.  Brookes;  seventeen 
Vice-presidents,  four  Home  Corresponding  Secretaries  and 
one  Foreign,  a  Recording  Secretary  and  a  Treasurer,  Mrs. 
Daniel  Kuhn.  This  Board  has  376  Societies  and  Bands, 
located  in  three  States  and  the  Indian  Territory,  which  have 
contributed  to  Foreign  Missions  $28,968,  and  to  Home 
Missions  $25,643. 


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METHODS. 


The  methods  of  the  Board  are  believed  to  be  simple, 
straightforward  and  businesslike ;  in  harmony  with  the 
Scriptural  warrant  for  missionary  work,  and  with  the  polity  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church.  They  are  the  result  of  the  experi¬ 
ence  and  observation  of  more  than  half  a  century.  To  claim 
for  them  perfection  would  be  to  lose  sight  of  the  fact  that  in  a 
widespread  and  constantly  developing  work  there  is  need  of 
frequent  modification  of  method.  The  Board  has  always 
assigned  the  chief  place  to  the  preaching  of  the  Word  as  an 
evangelizing  agency,  while  putting  due  emphasis  upon  the 
school,  the  press,  the  hospital  and  dispensary,  with  here  and 
there  an  experimental  effort  in  the  line  of  the  industrial  arts. 
The  Board’s  business  agency  is  the  Standing  Committee  of 
the  Mission  to  which  is  committed  the  interests  of  our  Church 
in  the  region  covered  by  the  Mission.  The  Standing  Com¬ 
mittee  includes  only  the  members  of  the  foreign  missionary 
force  entitled  to  be  members  of  Presbytery,  although  in  one 
of  the  Missions  with  prescribed  limitations,  the  Board  has 
recently  ventured  on  the  experiment  of  allowing  the  ladies  of 
the  Mission  a  vote  on  their  particular  department  of  the  work. 
The  Mission  meets  annually  and  hears  reports  of  the  work  of 
the  past  year,  and  considers  plans  and  estimates  for  the 
ensuing  year.  To  these  meetings  the  ladies  of  the  Mission 
are  most  welcome  and  their  counsel  invited  and  appreciated. 
At  various  times  during  the  history  of  the  Board,  especially 
in  recent  years,  the  serious  question  of  a  fuller  recognition  of 
native  ministers  has  been  repeatedly  considered.  The  matter 
has  been  under  consideration  by  the  Board  for  some  time, 


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and  it  is  hoped  that  some  plan  may  be  devised  by  which  the 
native  ministers  shall  have  a  more  potent  voice  in  the  mission 
work  than  that  which  is  accorded  them  at  present. 

In  the  Mission  House  the  work  is  divided  by  the  several 
secretaries  among  themselves,  each  having  the  correspondence 
with  certain  missions,  and  conducting  such  a  share  of  the 
home  correspondence  as  may  fall  to  him.  The  Secretaries 
and  Treasurer  constitute  the  Office  Conference.  This  infor¬ 
mal  conference  meets  on  the  Saturday  preceding  the  meetings 
of  the  Board  and  carefully  considers  all  business  to  be  pre¬ 
sented.  The  Office  is  expected  to  formulate  an  opinion  on  the 
various  subjects  to  be  submitted,  which  the  Board  at  its  pleasure 
adopts,  rejects  or  modifies.  In  considering  the  estimates  for  the 
ensuing  year  received  from  the  various  missions,  and  which 
form  the  basis  of  the  contemplated  outlay,  the  Finance  Com¬ 
mittee,  in  consultation  with  the  Office,  first  of  all  agrees  upon 
the  probable  revenue  to  be  expected  from  all  sources  during 
the  year.  Should  the  estimates  exceed  the  probable  income, 
which  is  always  the  case,  the  very  difficult  matter  is  under¬ 
taken  of  cutting  them  down  so  as  to  come  within  the  figure 
agreed  upon,  and  at  the  same  time  distribute  the  funds  as 
equitably  as  possible.  In  all  business  pertaining  to  the  several 
missions,  the  Board  attaches  great  importance  to  the  opinion 
of  brethren  on  the  field,  and  especially  to  the  recommenda¬ 
tions  of  the  Standing  Committees. 

The  plans  for  raising  funds  are  left  to  the  churches  under 
the  direction  of  the  Church  Courts,  while  the  secretaries  and 
returned  missionaries  by  public  addresses  and  otherwise,  do 
what  they  can  to  stimulate  intelligent  beneficence. 

In  its  methods,  as  in  all  else  pertaining  to  the  work,  the 
Board  is  amenable  to  the  General  Assembly,  and  to  it  alone, 
as  responsibility  to  any  inferior  judicatories  would  lead  to 
inextricable  confusion. 


MISSIONS  AND  MISSIONARIES. 


In  “  Foreign  Missions  ”  by  Dr.  Lowrie,  and  the  “  Historical 
Sketches  ”  already  referred  to,  very  full  information  will  be 
found  as  to  the  organization  and  development  of  the  several 
missions,  together  with  lists  of  missionaries  corrected  to  a 
recent  date.  The  following  historical  data,  together  with  the 
missionary  force  now  in  the  field,  will  suffice  for  the  present 
sketch.  The  names  in  italics  are  those  of  native  ordained 
ministers. 

MISSIONS  AMONG  THE  INDIANS. 

SENECA  MISSION. 

Alleghany:  Alleghany  Reservation,  Western  New  York;  Cornplanter 
Reservation,  Pennsylvania  ;  Rev.  M.  F.  Trippe  and  wife. 

Upper  Cattaraugus  :  Cattaraugus  Reservation,  Western  New  York  ; 
mission  begun,  1 8 1 1  ;  transferred  to  the  Board,  1870  ;  Rev.  William  Hall,  Miss 
Olivia  P.  Ball,  and  seven  native  assistants. 

Sub-stations  :  On  Tonawanda  and  Tuscarora  Reserves,  Western  New  York. 

THE  DAKOTA  MISSION. 

Yankton  Agency,  Dakota  Territory  :  on  the  Missouri  River,  69  miles  above 
Yankton  ;  station  occupied,  1869  ;  Rev  John  P.  Williamson  and  his  wife  ;  Miss 
Nancy  Hunter,  teacher;  Rev.  Henry  T.  Selwyn.  Outstations,  4;  native 
helpers,  2. 

Flandreau,  Dakota  Territory  :  on  Big  Sioux  River,  40  miles  above  Sioux 
Falls;  station  occupied,  1869;  Rev.  John  Eastman. 

Poplar  Creek,  Montana  Territory  :  on  the  Missouri  River,  70  miles  above 
Fort  Buford;  station  occupied,  1880;  Rev.  and  Mrs.  George  W.  Wood,  Jr. 
Out  station ,  1  ;  native  teachers,  2. 

Wolf  Point,  Montana  Territory  :  on  the  Missouri  River,  20  miles  from  Poplar 
Creek  ;  station  occupied,  1883  ;  at  present  vacant. 

Pine  Ridge,  Dakota  Territory:  occupied,  1886;  Rev.  C.  G.  Sterling  and 
his  wife  ;  Miss  Jennie  B.  Dickson  and  Miss  Charlotte  C.  McCreight ;  one  native 
helper. 


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OMAHA  MISSION. 

Blackbird  Hills,  Nebraska:  on  the  Missouri  River,  about  70  miles  above 
Omaha  City ;  mission  begun,  1846 ;  Rev.  William  Hamilton  and  his  wife, 
Decatur,  Nebraska  ;  Rev.  John  T.  Copley  and  his  wife  ;  Mrs.  Margaret  C.  Wade, 
Miss  Margaret  C.  Fetter,  Miss  Mary  L.  Barnes,  and  Miss  Eva  M.  Woodin, 
Omaha  Agency,  Omaha. 

WINNEBAGO  MISSION. 


On  their  reservation,  adjoining  that  of  the  Omahas  ;  mission  resumed,  1881  ; 
Rev.  Samuel  N.  D.  Martin  and  his  wife  ;  Rev.  William  T.  Findley.  Post  Office, 
Winnebago,  Nebraska. 

SAC  AND  FOX  MISSION. 

Mission  begun,  1883  ;  Miss  Anna  Skea.  Post  Office,  Tama  City,  Iowa. 

CHOCTAW  MISSION. 


Spencer  Academy  :  mission  begun,  1845  ,  Rev.  H.  R.  Schermerhorn  and 
his  wife. 


NEZ  PERCE  MISSION. 


Lapwai,  Idaho  Ter.  :  work  begun  1838;  Rev.  George  L.  Deffenbaugh  and 
Miss  Kate  McBeth. 

Kamiah  :  occupied  1885  ;  Miss  Sue  McBeth,  temporarily  at  Mount  Idaho. 

Native  ministers:  Kamiah,  Rev.  R.  Williams ;  Umatilla,  Rev.  J.  Hayes; 
North  Fork,  Rev.  W.  Wheeler;  Lapwai,  Rev.  A.  B.  Lawyer ;  Deep  Creek, 
Rev.  J.  Hines ;  Wellpinit,  Rev.  E.  Pond;  Meadow  Creek,  Rev.  S.  Whitman ; 
General  Evangelist,  Rev.  Peter  Lindsley. 


LAKE  SUPERIOR  CHIPPEWA  MISSION. 

Odanah  :  on  Bad  River  Reservation,  in  the  northwestern  part  of  Wisconsin, 
the  Reservation  fronting  on  Lake  Superior  ;  transferred  to  the  Board,  1870  ; 
missionary  work  resumed,  1871;  Rev.  Henry  Blatchford  and  Rev.  Edwin  Green. 

Lac  Cour  d’Oreilles  :  on  the  Reservation  of  the  same  name  ;  station  begun, 
1883;  Rev.  Samuel  G.  Wright.  Outstations :  at  Round  Lake,  8  miles  from 
Lac  Cour  d’Oreilles,  and  Puhquauhwong,  17  miles  from  the  station,  Misses  Susie 
and  Cornelia  H.  Dougherty. 

SOUTHERN  MEXICO  MISSION. 

Begun  in  1872,  in  the  City  of  Mexico  ;  Rev.  J.  Milton  Greene,  D.D.,  Rev. 
Hubert  W.  Brown  and  wife,  and  Rev.  H.  C.  Thomson ;  Miss  Annetta  M. 
Bartlett  and  Miss  V.  A.  Disosway.  Native  ministers  :  Mexico  City,  Rev.  Arca- 
dio  Morales  ;  San  Pedro  y  Pablo,  Rev.  Severiano  Gallegos ;  Toluca,  Rev.  Luis 
Arias;  Capulhuac,  Rev.  Evaristo  Hurtado ;  Ozumba,  Rev.  J.  P.  Navarez  ; 
Zimapan,  Rev.  Miguel  Arias;  Jacala,  Rev.  Vicente  Gomez ;  Zitacuaro,  Rev. 
Pedro  Bq-llastra  ;  San  Francisco,  Rev.  Enrique  Bianc hi ;  Tuxpam,  Rev.  Max- 
imiano  Palomino;  Jungapeo,  Rev.  Felipe  Pastrana;  Sauces,  Rev.  Salamon  Diaz; 
Merida,  Rev.  Prixiliano  Zavaleta  ;  Vera  Cruz,  Rev.  Hipolito  Quesada  ;  Jalapa, 
Rev.  Antonio  B.  Lopez;  San  Juan  Bantista,  Rev.  Abraham  Franco  ;  Paraiso, 
Rev.  Mariano  Olivera ;  Comalcalco,  Rev.  Eligio  Granados ;  Chilpancingo, 
Rev.  Plutarco  Arrellano  ;  Mohonera,  Rev.  Felix  Gomez;  Frontera, .  Rev.  Pro- 
copio  C.  Diaz  ;  Licentiates,  6  ;  native  teachers,  22  ;  Bible  woman,  1. 


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NORTHERN  MEXICO  MISSION. 

Zacatecas  :  occupied  1873  ;  laborers — Rev.  Thomas  F.  Wallace  ;  ordained 
natives,  2;  licentiates,  8;  native  helpers,  9.  At  Fresnillo,  Rev.  Jesus  Martinez. 

San  Luis  Potosi  :  occupied  1873  ;  laborers — Rev.  Marion  E.  Beall  and  wife; 
Rev.  Hesiquio  Forcada  ;  licentiates,  3 ;  teachers,  4. 

San  Miguel  del  Mezquital  :  occupied  1876;  laborers — Rev  David  J.  Stew¬ 
art  and  wife,  and  Rev.  Carlos  Abeyro  ;  one  teacher. 

Saltillo  :  occupied  1884;  Rev.  Isaac  Boyce  and  wife  ;  licentiates,  4;  teach¬ 
ers,  2.  At  Monterey,  Miss  Fannie  E.  Ward  and  Miss  Mabel  Elliott  ;  Rev.  Bri- 
gidio  Sepulveda. 

In  this  country  :  Mrs.  H.  C.  Thomson,  Mrs.  J.  M.  Greene,  and  Mrs.  T.  F. 
Wallace. 


MISSION  IN  GUATEMALA. 

Organized  in  1882  :  station,  Guatemala  City,  about  60  miles  from  the  seaport 
of  San  Jose  ;  laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  Edward  M.  Haymaker  ;  Miss  M.  L. 
Hammond,  and  Miss  Annie  E.  Ottaway. 


MISSIONS  IN  SOUTH  AMERICA. 

MISSION  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  COLUMBIA. 

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Bogota  :  the  capital  of  the  country  ;  situated  on  an  elevated  plain  ;  latitude, 
4  degrees  north  ;  climate,  temperate  ;  population  estimated  at  80,000  ;  occupied 
as  a  mission  station,  1856;  laborers — Revs.  M.  E.  Caldwell,  J.  G.  Touzeau, 
Thomas  H.  Candor  and  their  wives;  Miss  Eliza  E.  Macintosh;  five  native 
teachers. 


MISSIONS  IN  BRAZIL. 

Bahia  :  735  miles  north-northeast  of  Rio  de  Janeiro  ;  missionary  laborers — 
Rev.  Messrs.  A.  L.  Blackford,  D.D.,  and  his  wife;  one  native  assistant  and 
two  colporteurs.  Outstation  :  Cachoeira — one  colporteur  and  Bible-reader. 

Larangeiras  :  Rev.  J.  B.  Kolb  and  his  wife. 

Campos  :  about  150  miles  northeast  of  Rio  de  Janeiro — Rev.  F.  C.  Schneider 
and  Rev.  M.  P.  B.  de  Carvalhos  a. 

Rio  de  Janeiro:  capital  of  the  empire;  population  variously  stated  up  to 
400,000;  occupied  as  a  mission  station  in  i860;  missionary  laborers — Rev. 
Messrs.  J.  T.  Houston,  John  M.  Kyle,  and  their  wives,  and  Rev.  A.  B.  Trajano; 
one  native  assistant  and  two  colporteurs. 

Sao  Paulo  :  300  miles  west-southwest  of  Rio  de  Janeiro  ;  chief  town  in  the 
province  of  same  name  ;  population,  27,000  ;  occupied  as  a  mission  station  in 
1863  ;  missionary  laborers— Rev.  Geo.  W.  Chamberlain  and  wife  ;  H.  M.  Lane, 
M.D.;  Miss  Ella  Kuhl,  Miss  Mary  P.  Dascomb,  Miss  P.  A.  Thomas  ;  five  teach¬ 
ers,  one  Bible-reader  and  one  colporteur.  Rev.  D.  McLaren,  part  of  the  year. 

Sorocaba  :  60  miles  west  of  Sao  Paulo  ; — Rev.  J.  Zacharias  de  Miranda. 


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Rio  Claro  :  over  120  miles  northwest  of  Sao  Paulo  ;  occupied  as  a  mission 
station  in  1863;  missionary  laborers — Rev.  J.  F.  Dagama  and  wife  ;  Miss  Eva 
Dagama  ;  one  licentiate  and  two  colporteurs. 

Brotas  :  170  miles  northwest  of  Sao  Paulo  ;  occupied  as  a  mission  station  in 
1868  ;  missionary  laborers — Rev.  J.  B.  Howell  and  wife  ;  one  licentiate  and 
five  teachers. 

C aldas  :  170  miles  north  of  Sao  Paulo — Rev.  M.  G.  Torres ;  one  native 
helper  and  one  teacher. 

Campanha  :  Rev.  E.  C.  Pereira;  two  native  teachers.  Rev.  D.  McLaren, 
part  of  the  year. 

Botucatu  :  160  miles  west  by  north  of  Sao  Paulo  ;  missionary  laborers — Rev. 
y.  R.  C.  Braga  and  two  native  teachers. 

Corytiba  :  about  500  miles  southwest  of  Rio  de  Janeiro  ;  chief  town  of  the 
province  of  Parana  ;  missionary  laborers — G.  A.  Landes  and  wife  and  two  col- 

Porteurs-  MISSIONS  IN  CHILI. 

Valparaiso  :  the  chief  seaport  of  Chili,  lat.  33  deg.  south  ;  Population, 
100,000  ;  laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  David  Trumbull,  D.D.,  W.  E.  Dodge,  J.  F. 
Garvin,  and  their  wives. 

Santiago  :  the  capital  of  Chili,  120  miles  south  of  Valparaiso,  with  which  it 
has  railroad  connection  ;  Population,  125,000  ;  laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  S.  J. 
Christen,  J.  M.  Allis,  W.  H.  Lester,  Jr.,  William  B.  Boomer,  and  their  wives; 

Rei>.  Albert  Vidauree. 

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Concepcion  :  near  the  coast,  about  300  miles  south  of  Valparaiso,  connected 
with  Santiago  by  railroad  ;  Population,  20,000  ;  laborer — Rev.  Francisco 
J  or q  tier  a. 

Constitution  :  a  seaport  about  150  miles  south  of  Valparaiso;  Population, 
8,000  ;  laborer — Rev.  Moses  Bercoritz. 

Quillota  :  on  the  railroad  connecting  Valparaiso  and  Santiago  ;  Population, 
1,500;  laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  William  H.  Robinson;  one  licentiate. 

MISSIONS  IN  WESTERN  AFRICA. 

LIBERIA  MISSION. 

Monrovia  :  Capital  of  Liberia;  begun  1833;  laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  Frank 
B.  Perry. 

Brewerville  : 

Clay-Ashland  :  laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  Phililp  F.  Flournoy,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Albert  B.  King. 

Glima  :  in  the  Vey  country  ;  laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  W.  Roberts. 
Careysburgh  :  laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  Robert  A.  M.  Deputie. 
Schieffelin  : 

Grassdale  :  laborer'— Mr.  Robert  D.  King. 

Gibeah:  laborer — Mrs.  Sophia  E.  Nurse. 

Greenville  :  Sinoe  ;  laborer — Rev.  David  Frazier. 


GABOON  AND  CORISCO  MISSION. 


Benita  :  on  the  mainland,  53  miles  north  of  Corisco  ;  occupied  as  a  mission 
station,  1864;  laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  Cornelius  De  Heer  and  Mrs.  Louise 
Reutlinger.  Out  stations  ;  Batanga,  Evune,  Bata,  etc.  ;  Rev.  Frank  S.  Myongo, 
fourteen  native  assistants. 

Corisco  :  55  miles  north  of  the  equator  and  from  15  to  20  miles  from  the 
mainland.  Alongo  :  occupied  as  a  station,  1850;  laborers — Rev.  Ibia  J.  Ikenje; 
one  native  licentiate  preacher.  Outstation  at  Albiko ,  on  the  mainland  opposite 
Corisco  ;  three  native  assistants. 

Gaboon  :  Baraka ,  on  the  Gaboon  River,  near  the  equator,  10  miles  from  the 
sea  ;  occupied  as  a  station,  1842  ;  transferred  to  the  Board,  1870  ;  laborers — 
Rev.  and  Mrs.  William  C.  Gault,  Mr.  Joseph  H.  Reading,  Mr.  Peter  Menkel. 
Outstation  at  Rembwe ,  on  the  Gaboon  River  :  Rev.  Ntakc  Truman. 

Angom  :  above  Nengenenge,  on  the  Gaboon  River  ;  occupied  as  a  station, 
1881  ;  laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  W.  Marling  and  Mrs.  T.  Spencer  Ogden. 

Kang  we  :  on  the  Ogove  River,  165  miles  from  the  sea  by  the  river,  or  90 
miles  direct ;  occupied  as  a  station,  1876;  laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  Adolphus 
C.  Good  ;  Miss  Mary  L.  Harding  ;  one  native  licentiate  preacher  ;  two  native 
helpers.  Five  outstations ;  one  native  licentiate  and  seven  native  assistants. 

Talaguga  :  on  the  Ogove  River,  50  miles  above  Kangwe  ;  occupied  as  a 
station,  1882  ;  laborers — Rev.  Robert  H.  Nassau,  M.D.  ;  Miss  Isabella  A. 
Nassau. 


MISSIONS  IN  SYRIA. 

Beirut  :  Rev.  Messrs.  C.  V.  A.  Van  Dyck,  D.D.,  M.D.,  H.  H.  Jessup,  D.D., 
Wm.  W.  Eddy,  D.D.,  James  S.  Dennis,  D.D.,  Samuel  Jessup,  and  their  wives  • 
Mrs.  Gerald  F.  Dale,  Miss  Emelia  Thomson,  and  Miss  Alice  S.  Barber. 

Abeih  :  Rev.  Messrs.  Wm.  Bird  and  Theo.  S.  Pond,  and  their  wives  ;  Miss 
Emily  G.  Bird. 

Sidon  :  Rev.  Wm.  K.  Eddy  and  wife,  Miss  H.  M.  Eddy,  Miss  Charlotte  H. 
and  Miss  Rebecca  M.  Brown. 

Tripoli  :  Rev.  Messrs.  O.  J.  Hardin  and  F.  W.  March,  and  Ira  Harris,  M.D., 
and  their  wives  ;  Miss  Harriet  Lagrange,  Miss  Mary  T.  Maxwell  Ford,  and  Miss 
Mary  C.  Holmes. 

Zahleh  :  Rev.  George  A.  Ford. 

In  this  country  :  Rev.  W111.  M.  Thomson,  D.D.,  Mrs.  Mary  P.  Ford. 

Faculty  of  the  Syrian  Protestant  College  :  Rev.  Daniel  Bliss,  D.D.,  President  ; 
Rev.  George  E.  Post,  M.  D.,  Rev.  Harvey  Porter,  B.A.,  Charles  F.  Dight,  M.D., 
Thomas  W.  Kay,  M.D.,  John  C.  Fisher,  M.D.,  Samuel  F.  Glover,  M.D.,  Robert 
H.  West,  M.A.,  Frank  S.  Woodruff,  B.A.,  Robert  Beattie,  B.A.,  Geo.  L.  Rob¬ 
inson,  B.A  ,  and  four  native  instructors. 


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MISSIONS  IN  PERSIA. 


WESTERN  MISSION. 

Oroomiah  :  station  begun  under  the  American  Board,  1834;  transferred  to 
this  Board,  1871  ;  laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  J.  H.  Shedd,  D.D.,  B.  Labaree,  D.D., 
F.  G.  Coan,  E.  W.  McDowell,  E.  W.  St.  Pierre,  and  their  wives  ;  Joseph  P. 
Cochran,  M.D.,  and  his  wife  ;  Mr.  W.  A.  Shedd,  Mrs.  D.  P.  Cochran,  Miss  N. 
J.  Dean,  Miss  M.  K.  Van  Duzee,  Miss  M.  Morgan,  Miss  E.  G.  Cochran. 

Tabriz  :  station  begun  1873  ;  laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  J.  M.  Oldfather,  S.  G. 
Wilson,  and  their  wives  ;  G.  W.  Holmes,  M.D.,  and  his  wife  ;  Miss  Mary  Jewett, 
Mrs.  L.  C.  Van  Hook,  and  Miss  G.  Y.  Holliday. 

Salmas  :  Haft  Dtwan  village  ;  station  begun  1884  ;  laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  J. 
N.  Wright,  J.  C.  Mechlin,  and  their  wives  ;  Miss  C.  O.  Van  Duzee,  Miss  Emma 
Roberts. 


EASTERN  MISSION. 

Teheran:  capital  of  Persia,  population  200,000;  work  begun  in  1872; 
laborers— Rev.  J.  L.  Potter,  W.  W.  Torrence,  M.D.,  Rev.  S.  Lawrence  Ward, 
Rev.  Lewis  F.  Esselstyn,  and  their  wives ;  Miss  Anna  Schenck,  Miss  Cora 
Bartlett,  Miss  Annie  G.  Dale. 

Hamadan  :  200  miles  southwest  of  Teheran,  population  40,000  ;  occupied 
1880  ;  laborers— Rev.  James  W.  Hawkes,  E.  W.  Alexander,  M.D.,  and  their 
wives  ;  Miss  Annie  Montgomery,  Miss  Charlotte  G.  Montgomery. 


MISSIONS  IN  INDIA. 

LODIANA  MISSION. 

Rawal  Pindi  :  170  miles  northwest  of  Lahore  ;  mission  station  commenced, 
1855  ;  laborers — Rev.  J.  F.  Ullmann,  Rev.  Robert  Morrison  and  his  wife  ;  Miss 
Margaret  A.  Craig  ;  eight  native  assistants.  Outstation:  Murree.  In  England : 
Mrs.  J.  F.  Ullmann. 

Lahore  :  the  political  capital  of  the  Punjab,  1,225  miles  northwest  of  Calcutta  ; 
mission  station  commenced,  1849  ;  laborers — Rev.  John  Newton,  D.D.,  Rev. 
Charles  W.  P'orman,  D.D.,  and  Rev.  J.  Harris  Orbison,  M.D.,  and  their  wives  ; 
Rev.  Henry  C.  Velte  ;  Rev.  P.  C.  Uppal,  Rev.  Isa  Char  ran ;  Miss  Clara  Thiede  ; 
nine  native  assistants.  Employed  by  the  mission — three  female  teachers. 

Ferozepore  :  50  miles  southwest  of  Lodiana  ;  occupied  as  a  station,  1882  ; 
laborers — Rev.  Francis  J.  Newton,  M.D.,  and  his  wife  ;  two  native  assistants. 

Hoshyarpore  :  45  miles  north  of  Lodiana  ;  mission  station  commenced, 
1867  ;  laborers — Rev.  K.  C.  Chatter jee  and  Rev.  H.  Abdullah;  nine  native 
assistants. 

Jalandhar  :  120  miles  east  of  Lahore,  30  miles  west  of  Lodiana  ;  mission 
station  commenced,  1846;  laborers — Charles  W.  Forman,  Jr.,  M.D.,  and  his 
wife  ;  Miss  M.  Pratt  ;  Rev.  Golak  Nath  ;  one  native  assistant. 


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Lodiana  :  near  the  river  Sutlej,  1,100  miles  northwest  of  Calcutta;  mission 
station  commenced,  1834  ;  laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  Charles  B.  Newton,  Edward 
P.  Newton,  and  James  M.  McComb,  and  their  wives  ;  Miss  Margaret  M.  Given, 
and  Miss  C.  E.  Downs  ;  Rev.  John  B.  Dales ;  native  assistants— one  Scripture- 
reader,  nine  male  and  six  female  teachers.  Out  station  at  Jagraon,  Rev.  Ahmad 
Shak.  and  one  native  teacher  ;  at  Rupah,  Rev.  Matthias ;  at  Morinda.  one  native 
teacher ;  at  Khanna,  two  native  assistants ;  at  Rampur,  Rev.  Henry  Golok 
Nath  ;  one  native  teacher. 

Ambala  :  55  miles  southeast  of  Lodiana  ;  mission  station  commenced,  1848  ; 
laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  Benjamin  D.  Wyckoff  and  William  J.  P.  Morrison,  Rev. 
G.  S.  Bergen,  and  their  wives;  Miss  J.  R.  Carleton,  M.D.;  Rev.  IV.  Basten , 
Rev.  Sandar  Lai:  ten  native  assistants.  Near  Ambala:  Rev.  Marcus  C.  Carle- 
ton  and  his  wife;  Marcus  B.  Carleton,  M.D.;  two  native  helpers.  Out  station 
at  Jagadri ;  one  native  licentiate  preacher. 

Sabathu  :  in  the  lower  Himalaya  Mountains,  no  miles  east  of  Lodiana  ; 
mission  station  commenced,  1836  ;  laborers — Mrs.  J.  H.  Morrison  ;  RtV.  T.  W. 
J.  Wylie ;  two  native  teachers. 

Dehra  :  47  miles  east  of  Saharanpur  ;  mission  station  commenced,  1853  ; 
laborers — Rev.  Reese  Thackwell  and  his  wife,  Miss  Sarah  M.  Wherry,  Miss 
Annie  S.  Geisenger,  Miss  L.  M.  Pendleton,  employed  by  the  girls’  school,  one 
female  teacher  ;  Rev.  Prabhu  Das ;  five  native  assistants. 

Woodstock  :  in  Landour,  15  miles  eastward  from  Dehra  ;  school  begun, 
1874  ;  laborers — Mrs.  James  L.  Scott,  Miss  Irene  Griffith,  Miss  Clara  G.  William¬ 
son,  Miss  Emily  G.  Foote,  Miss  Mary  Fullerton,  and  Miss  Anna  M.  Condit. 

Saharanpur  :  130  miles  southeast  of  Lodiana  ;  mission  station  commenced, 
1836  ;  laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  Alexander  P.  Kelso,  J.  C.  Rhea  Ewing,  D.D., 
E.  M.  Wherry,  D.D.,  and  their  wives;  Rev.  Gilbert  Me  Master ;  thirteen 
native  assistants. 

Mzafuarnagar  :  a  few  miles  south  of  Saharanpur,  on  the  railroad  ;  Rev. 
William  Calderwood  and  his  wife  ;  Rev.  Kanwar  Sain  ;  one  native  teacher. 

FURRUKHABAD  MISSION. 

Furrukhabad  :  on  the  Ganges,  723  miles  northwest  of  Calcutta  ;  mission 
station  commenced,  1844  ;  missionary  laborers — Rev.  Mohan  Lall,  Rev.  Rajaram 
Chilambar  ;  sixteen  native  Christian  assistants.  Outstation ;  Chabramow. 

Futtehgurh  :  mission  station  commenced,  1838;  missionary  laborers  — Rev. 
John  S.  Woodside,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  C.  A.  Rodney  Janvier,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  George 
A.  Seely,  and  Rev.  Henry  Forman  ;  Miss  E.  J.  Seely  ;  seventeen  native  Christian 
assistants.  Employed  by  the  mission — two  female  teachers. 

Mynpurie  :  40  miles  west  of  Futtehgurh  ;  mission  station  commenced,  1843  ; 
missionary  laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  T.  Edward  Inglis,  George  W.  Pollock,  and 
their  wives  ;  twelve  native  assistants. 

E'l’AH  :  not  distant  from  Mynpurie  and  Etawah  ;  station  begun,  1873  ;  labor¬ 
ers — eight  native  helpers. 

Etawah:  on  the  Jumna,  50  miles  southwest  of  Mynpurie;  mission  station 
commenced,  1863;  laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Tracy;  Rev.  Nabibaksh; 
nine  native  assistants.  Miss  Christine  Belz,  teacher  and  Zenana  visitor.  Two 
sub-stations. 


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Gwalior  :  capital  of  the  district  of  the  same  name;  mission  station  com¬ 
menced,  1874;  Mrs.  Joseph  Warren;  three  native  assistants. 

Jhansi  :  65  miles  south  of  Gwalior;  occupied  as  a  missionary  station  in  1886  ; 
laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  James  F.  Holcomb. 

Futtehpore  :  70  miles  northwest  of  Allahabad;  station  begun,  1853;  labor¬ 
ers — three  native  assistants. 

Allahabad  :  at  the  junction  of  the  Ganges  and  the  Jumna,  506  miles  north¬ 
west  of  Calcutta;  mission  station  commenced,  1836;  laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  James 
M.  Alexander,  J.  J.  Lucas  and  their  wives  ;  Rev.  John  N.  Forman;  Miss  Sarah  C. 
Seward,  M.L).,  Miss  Susan  A.  Hutchison,  Miss  Mary  B.  Lawson,  and  Miss  Mary 
P.  Forman;  Rev.  J.  J.  Caleb;  four  native  licentiate  preachers;  fifteen  native 
assistants. 

In  this  country:  Rev.  William  F.  Johnson,  D.D. 

KOLHAPUR  MISSION. 

Kolhapur  :  200  miles  southeast  of  Bombay  ;  mission  station  commenced, 
1853  ;  taken  under  the  care  of  the  Board,  1870  ;  laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  Galen 
W.  Seiler  and  Joseph  M.  Goheen  and  their  wives  ;  Mrs.  J.  J.  Hull,  Mrs.  R.  G. 
Whlder,  Miss  Grace  E.  Wilder;  native  assistants — one  licentiate  and  nine  teach¬ 
ers  and  helpers.  One  outstation. 

Panhala  :  14  miles  north  of  Kolhapur;  mission  station  commenced,  1877; 
laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  George  H.  Ferris,  Miss  Esther  Patton;  native  assist¬ 
ants,  8.  Three  outstations. 

Sangli  :  30  miles  east  of  Kolhapur;  work  begun,  1884;  Rev.  Messrs.  Joseph 
P.  Graham  and  L.  B.  Tedford  and  their  wives;  two  native  helpers. 

MISSION  IN  SIAM. 

Bangkok:  on  the  River  Meinam,  25  miles  from  its  mouth;  occupied  as  a 
mission  station,  1840  to  1844,  and  from  1847  to  the  present  time;  laborers — Rev. 
Messrs.  E.  Wachter,  W.  G.  McClure,  Dr.  T.  Heyward  Hays,  and  their  wives; 
Miss  Edna  S.  Cole,  Miss  Laura  A.  Olmstead;  two  native  licentiate  preachers,  six 
native  teachers. 

Petchaburi  :  on  the  western  side  of  the  Gulf  of  Siam,  85  miles  southwest 
from  Bangkok  ;  occupied  as  a  mission  station  in  1861;  laborers — Rev.  Eugene 
P.  Dunlap,  James  B.  Thompson,  M.D.,  and  their  wives;  Rev.  C.  A.  Berger, 
Miss  Mary  L.  Cort,  Miss  Jennie  M.  Small,  Mise  Kate  N.  Fleeson,  five  native 
helpers,  two  licentiates,  ten  native  teachers.  • Outstations :  Bangkaboon,  Pak- 
talay,  Ta  Rua,  Ban  Pai,  and  other  places. 

MISSION  AMONG  THE  LAOS. 

Chieng-Mai  :  on  the  river  Quee-Ping,  500  miles  north  of  Bangkok  ;  occupied 
as  a  mission  station,  1876 ;  laborers — Rev.  Jonathan  Wilson,  Rev.  Messrs. 
Daniel  McGilvary,  D.D.,  D.  G.  Collins,  and  their  wives  ;  Rev.  W.  C.  Dodd, 
and  A.  M.  Cary,  M.D.  ;  Miss  Eliza  P.  Westeivelt,  Miss  Isabella  Griffin,  Miss 
Belle  Eakin  and  Miss  Mary  Van  Email ;  two  native  assistants  ;  ten  outstations. 

Lakawn  :  Rev.  S.  C.  Peoples,  M.D.,  and  his  wife. 


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MISSIONS  IN  CHINA. 

CANTON  MISSION. 

Canton  :  Rev.  Messrs.  A.  P.  Happer,  D.D.,  H.  V.  Noyes,  B.  C.  Henry,  W. 
J.  White,  and  A.  A.  Fulton,  and  their  wives;  John  G.  Kerr,  M.D.,  and  J.  M. 
Swan,  M.D.,  and  their  wives;  Rev.  O.  F.  Wisner,  Miss  Alverda  Happer,  Miss 
E.  M.  Butler,  Miss  M.  W.  Niles,  M.D.,  Miss  M.  Baird,  Miss  J.  E.  Wisner,  Miss 
M.  Id.  Fulton,  M.D.,  and  Miss  Sophie  G.  Preston;  Rev.  Quan  Loy ,  Rev.  E. 
Sikkau,  and  Rev.  Lai  Po  Tsun;  nineteen  unordained  evangelists,  seventeen 
native  assistants,  thirty-three  teachers,  and  eighteen  Bible-women. 

Macao  :  Miss  Hattie  Lewis. 

Hainan  :  Rev.  F.  P.  Gilman  and  wife;  H.  M.  McCandliss,  M.D.,  and  Mr. 
C.  C.  Jerimiassen. 

Yeung  Kong  :  Rev.  J.  C.  Thomson,  M.D.,  and  wife. 

In  this  country :  Miss  Hattie  Noyes. 


CENTRAL  MISSION. 

Ningpo  :  on  the  Ningpo  River,  12  miles  from  the  sea  ;  occupied  as  a  mission 
station,  1845  ;  laborers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  W.  J.  McKee,  Mrs.  John  Butler,  and 
Miss  Sarah  O.  Warner  ;  Rev.  Messrs.  Bao-kwong-hyi ,  Uoh-Cong-eng ,  Zi-Kyuo- 
jing ,  Lu-Cing-veng ,  Yiang-Ling-tsiao ,  Ye  Yin-coh  and  I,eo  Ping-fong ;  twelve 
licentiates  and  helpers,  five  Bible-women,  six  teachers. 

Shanghai  :  on  the  Woosung  River,  14  miles  from  the  sea  ;  occupied  as  a 
mission  station,  1850;  laborers— Rev.  J.  M.  W.  Farnham,  D.D.,  Rev.  J.  N.  B. 
Smith,  Rev.  George  F.  Fitch  and  their  wives,  Rev.  John  A.  Silsby;  Rev.  Messrs. 
Woo  Ts-ziang,  Wong  Bung-lan,  Bau  Tsih-dzae ,  and  Tang-  Tok-tsoong y  six 
native  helpers,  nineteen  teachers,  and  three  Bible-women. 

Hangchow  :  the  provincial  capital  of  Chekiang  province,  156  miles  north¬ 
west  of  Ningpo;  occupied  as  a  mission  station,  1859;  laborers — Rev.  Messrs. 
J.  H.  Judson  and  Frank  V.  Mdls  and  their  wives;  Rev.  Messrs.  Tsiang-ATying- 
Kzve,  and  Yu  Zong-foh;  six  native  teachers,  one  Bible-woman. 

SuCHOW  :  70  miles  from  Shanghai;  occupied  as  a  mission  station,  1871;  labor¬ 
ers — Rev.  and  Mrs.  J.  N.  Hayes  and  Rev.  David  N.  Lyon;  two  teachers. 

Nanking  :  on  the  Yang-tse-Kiang,  90  miles  from  its  mouth  ;  occupied  as  a 
mission  station,  1876;  laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  Charles  Leaman  and  R.  E.  Abbey 
and  their  wives;  two  ordained  natives,  one  Bible-woman,  three  teachers. 


PEKING  MISSION. 

Peking  :  the  capital  of  the  country  ;  occupied  as  a  mission  station,  1863  ; 
missionary  laborers— Rev.  Messrs.  J.  L.  Whiting,  Daniel  McCoy  and  Rev.  John 
Wherry  and  their  wives  ;  Rev.  J.  Walter  Lowrie,  Mrs.  Reuben  Lowrie,  Miss 
Mary  A.  Lowrie,  and  Miss  Grace  Newton  ;  B.  C.  Atterbury,  M.  D.,  and  George 
Y.  Taylor,  M.D.  ;  four  licentiates,  eight  helpers,  and  one  Bible-woman. 


SHANTUNG  MISSION. 


Tungchow  :  on  the  coast,  55  miles  from  Chefoo  ;  occupied  as  a  mission 
station,  1861  ;  missionary  laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  C.  W.  Mateer,  D.D.,  Charles 
R.  Mills,  D.D.,  and  W.  M.  Hayes  and  their  wives;  J.  B.  Neal,  M.D.,  and  wile; 
Rev.  Yue  Kih  Yin ,  two  licentiates  ;  nine  teachers. 

Chefoo  :  the  chief  foreign  port  of  Shantung  ;  occupied  as  a  mission  station, 
1862-  missionary  laborers— Rev.  Messrs.  J.  L.  Nevius,  D.D.,  Hunter  Corbett, 
D.d/,  and  Geo.  S.  Hays  and  their  wives;  Miss  Fannie  Wight;  one  licentiate, 
sixteen  helpers,  four  Bible-women. 

Che-NAN-FOO  :  capital  of  the  Shantung  province,  300  miles  south  of  Peking  ; 
occupied  as  a  mission  station,  1872  ;  missionary  laborers— Rev.  Messrs.  John 
Murray  and  Paul  D.  Bergen  and  their  wives  ;  Rev.  Messrs.  Gilbert  Reid  and 
W.  P.  Chalfant ;  Robert  Coltman,  Jr.,  M.D.,  and  wife;  Miss  Lulu  H.  Boyd; 
three  helpers. 

WeiHien:  150  miles  southwest  from  Tungchow;  occupied  as  a  station  in 
1882*  missionary  laborers — Rev.  R.  M.  Mateer  and  Rev.  Messis.  J.  A..  Leyen- 
berger,  S.  A.  Hunter,  M.D.,  J.  H.  Laughlin  and  F.  H.  Chalfant  and  their 
wives  ;  Miss  Emma  Anderson  ;  three  teachers. 


MISSIONS  IN  JAPAN. 

TOKYO  MISSION. 

Yokohama:  on  the  bay  a  few  miles  below  dokyo;  mission  begun,  1859  5 
laborers— James  C.  Hepburn,  M.D.,  and  his  wife. 

Tokyo  :  the  capital  of  Japan  ;  station  occupied,  1869  ;  laborers— Rev. 
Messrs.  David  Thompson,  D.D.,  William  Imbrie,  D.D.,  George  William  Knox 
and  James  M.  McCauley,  and  their  wives  ;  Rev.  Theodore  MacNair,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  John  C.  Ballagh,  Mrs.  Maria  T.  True,  Miss  Kate  C.  Youngman,  Miss  Sarah 
C.  Smith,  Miss  Anna  Iv.  Davis,  Miss  Isabella  A.  Leete,  Miss  Canie  I .  Alexander, 
Miss  Annie  R.  West,  Miss  Mary  L.  Reade,  Miss  Annie  P.  Ballagh,  Miss  Bessie 
P.  Milliken,  Miss  C.  H,  Rose,  Miss  Gertrude  S.  Bigelow,  Miss  Etta  W.  Case,  and 
Miss  Efhe  Light,  M.D. 


OSAKA  MISSION. 

Kanazawa  :  on  the  Japan  Sea,  about  180  miles  northwest  of  Yedo  ;  station 
occupied,  1879  ;  Rev.  Messrs.  Thomas  C.  Winn,  James  B.  Poitei,  M.  C.  Llayes, 
B.  C.  Haworth,  and  their  wives;  Miss  Francina  Porter,  Miss  Mary  K.  Hesser, 
Mrs.  S.  M.  Naylor. 

Osaka  :  a  seaport  in  the  Island  of  Niphon,  33  miles  fiom  Miako  ,  station 
occupied,  1881;  Rev.  Messrs.  Thomas  T.  Alexander,  Charles  M.  Fisher,  John 
P.  Hearst,  and  their  wives  ;  Miss  Ann  Eliza  Garvin,  Miss  Antoinette  Warner  and 
Miss  Alice  R.  Haworth. 

Hiroshima:  Rev.  Messrs.  A.  V.  Bryan,  F.  S.  Curtis,  and  their  wives  ;  Miss 
M.  N.  Cuihbert. 


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MISSION  IN  KOREA. 

Mission  begun  in  1884  ;  station,  Seoul,  the  capital,  near  the  western  coast,  on 
the  Han  River,  and  25  miles  overland  from  the  commercial  port,  Chemulpho  ; 
laborers — J.  W.  Heron,  M.D.,  and  wife,  and  Rev.  H.  G.  Underwood  ;  Mrs, 
Annie  Ellers  Bunker,  M.  D.,  and  Miss  Lillian  S.  Horton,  M.D. 


MISSIONS  TO  THE  CHINESE  AND  JAPANESE  IN  THIS 

COUNTRY. 

San  Francisco  :  Mission  begun,  1852  ;  laborers — Rev.  Messrs.  Augustus  W. 
Loomis,  D.D.,  and  A.  J.  Kerr,  and  their  wives, -and  E.  W.  Sturge,  M.D,,  and 
wife  ;  Miss  Maggie  Culbertson,  Mills  E.  R.  Cable,  and  Miss  M.  M.  Baskin  ;  three 
teachers  in  English  ;  three  other  native  helpers. 

Oakland  :  Mission  begun  1877  ;  two  teachers  ;  one  native  helper. 

Los  Angeles  :  laborers — Rev.  I.  M.  Condit  and  wife  ;  one  native  helper  ; 
two  teachers  in  English. 

Portland,  Oregon  :  laborers — Rev.  W.  S.  Holt  and  wife. 

New  York  :  one  native  teacher. 


LITERATURE. 


Soon  after  the  organization  of  the  Western  Foreign 
Missionary  Society,  the  necessit/  for  a  foreign  missionary 
literature  was  felt,  and  the  Foreign  Missionary  Chronicle  was 
established  in  1832,  though  the  first  bound  volume  bears  the 
date  of  1833.  During  the  last  year  of  its  publication  the 
Chronicle  had  two  departments,  named  the  Foreign  Missionary 
Chronicle ,  and  the  Home  Missionary  Chronicle .  In  January, 
1850,  this  publication  gave  place  to  the  Home  and  Foreign 
Record ,  which  by  order  of  the  General  Assembly  was  issued 
as  the  joint  organ  of  the  several  Boards  of  the  Church. 

The  Foreign  Missionary  was  first  published  in  newspaper 
form  in  May,  1842,  and  continued  to  be  issued  in  this  form 
with  various  changes  till  1876,  having  attained  a  circulation 
of  almost  70,000.  Meanwhile,  in  June,  1850,  a  pamphlet 
edition  was  begun,  including  the  same  matter  with  important 
additions  adapted  in  style  and  scope  to  adults,  while  the 
newspaper  edition  became  more  a  publication  for  children  and 
youth.  In  this  form  it  was  issued  till  1886,  when  the  General 
Assembly  of  that  year  ordered  it  and  Home  and  Foreign 
Record  to  be  discontinued  to  make  way  for  the  new  magazine, 
“  The  Church  at  Home  and  Abroad .” 

In  April,  1871,  the  publication  of  Woman's  Work  for 
Woman  was  begun  by  the  Woman’s  Society,  located  in 
Philadelphia,  and  in  September  of  the  same  year  Onr  Mission 
Field  was  issued  by  the  Woman’s  Board  of  New  York.  In 
1886,  the  two  were  consolidated,  and  the  publication  of  the 
present  magazine,  “  Woman's  Work  for  Woman  and  Our 


Mission  Field ”  was  begun,  with  Miss  Ellen  C.  Parsons  as 
editor,  and  an  editorial  committee  consisting  of  one  represent¬ 
ative  from  each  of  the  five  Boards  or  Societies.  Woman's 
Work  for  Woman  had  attained  a  circulation  of  10,000,  and 
Our  Mission  Field  of  1,500,  while  the  average  circulation  of 
the  consolidated  magazine  among  bona-fide  subscribers 
averages  14,500. 

To  encourage,  develop  and  direct  the  interest  of  the 
children  in  Foreign  Missions,  Children's  Work  for  Children 
was  established  in  1875,  a  bright,  illustrated  magazine  with  an 
increasing  circulation,  published  at  1334  Chestnut  Street, 
Philadelphia.  Its  present  editor  is  Miss  Mary  I.  Lombard. 

In  addition  to  the  magazines  noted  above,  and  one  or  two 
volumes  referred  to  in  the  note  prefixed  to  this  sketch,  the  Board 
has  published  nothing.  The  ladies’  societies,  however,  besides 
“Historical  Sketches’’  published  in  Philadelphia,  and  a  series 
of  “Missionary  Annals’’  published  in  Chicago,  have  issued 
and  distributed  a  large  number  of  carefully  prepared  tracts 
and  leaflets  containing  valuable  information  and  helpful  hints. 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  issues  of  the  various 
mission  presses  connected  with  the  Presbyterian  Church,  are 
not  to  be  found  in  tabulated  form,  or  indeed  in  any  available 
shape,  so  as  to  make  an  accurate  and  exhaustive  list  possible. 
Hundreds  of  volumes,  including  such  works  as  Dr.  John 
Newton’s  Gurmukhi  Dictionary,  Dr.  James  C.  Hepburn’s 
Japanese  and  English  Dictionary,  Systematic  Theology  in 
Arabic,  by  Dr.  James  S.  Dennis,  translations  of  the  Bible  in 
whole  or  in  part,  educational  and  scientific  books,  besides 
millions  of  pages  of  books  and  tracts  for  general  distribution, 
by  sale  or  gift,  and  a  large  number  of  weekly  or  monthly 
sheets,  something  after  the  style  of  our  religious  newspapers, 
have  been  issued  from  the  presses  connected  with  our 
Missions;  to  say  nothing  of  the  volumes  and  fugitive  news¬ 
paper  and  magazine  articles  which  have  been  written  by  the 
missionaries  and  published  in  this  country  and  elsewhere. 


RESULTS. 


To  tabulate  the  results  of  such  a  work  is  impossible — 
they  can  not  even  be  ascertained  in  all  their  variety  and 
magnitude.  Even  could  tables  be  constructed  with  unerring 

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accuracy,  presenting  with  painstaking  minuteness  the  tangible 
results  attained  in  the  several  lines  of  effort  on  mission  fields, 
they  would  fall  far  short  of  giving  the  aggregate  results  of 
half  a  century  of  missionary  labor.  They  would  tell  nothing 
of  the  silent  but  mighty  influence  of  the  Gospel  upon  society 
apart  from  its  saving  power,  in  elevating  the  standard  of 
morality,  sanctifying  the  family  relation,  and  introducing  those 
principles  of  a  Christian  civilization,  which  find  expression  in 
such  institutions  as  hospitals  and  asylums.  The  following 
tables  are  submitted,  however,  as  embodying  such  facts  as 
admit  of  record  in  figures.  A  careful  examination  of  them,, 
in  connection  with  even  the  imperfect  historical  sketch  here¬ 
with  presented,  ought  to  call  forth  profound  thanksgiving  to 
God  on  the  part  of  the  whole  Church,  and  stimulate  to  still 
greater  sacrifices  and  grander  efforts  for  the  spread  of  the 
Gospel  among  heathen  and  nominally-christian  nations  in 
this  day  of  opportunity  and  responsibility.  The  commission 
from  the  lips  of  the  risen  Lord  still  rings  out  from  the  trysted 
mountain  in  Galilee,  and  the  added  promise  still  remains :: 
“  Lo,  I  am  with  you  alway,  even  unto  the  end  of  the  world. 
Amen.” 


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Statistics  of  Fifty-six  Years,  including  Western  Foreign  Missionary  Society. 


Year. 

Missions . 

Stations . 

MIN¬ 

ISTERS. 

LAY  MIS¬ 
SIONARIES. 

Communicants . 

SCHOLARS. 

Total  Scholars . 

RECEIPTS. 

Board¬ 

ing. 

Day. 

F kom  Churches  and 
Individuals. 

From  Bequests . 

American . 

Native. 

American.! 

Native . 

HH 

W 

O 

Girls . 

Boys . 

Girls . 

Ordained  . . 

Licentiate. . 

Male . 

Female. 

1  ; 

Married 

Single. . 

1833.... 

$5,331.9° 

$100,00 

3 

4 

j 

2 

12,673.04 

1834  ... 

3 

4 

7 

6 

2 

4 

2 

15,072.78 

337-28 

1035. . . . 

3 

4 

6 

1 0 

I 

16,801.74 

50.00 

10^0 • • • • 

4 

5 

6 

8 

1 1 

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sj 

IO 

5° 

5° 

37, =,60.26 

1,034.88 

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4 

T  3 

6 

17 

27 

22 

II 

139 

22 

194 

44,468.62 

80.00 

103s .... 
18^0 .... 

b 

6 

/ 

9 

16 

5 

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I 

4 

77 

57 

348 

37 

519 

52,238.68 

115.00 

c. 

20 

6 

98 

64 

480 

37 

679 

52,325.79 

1,764.25 

8 

26 

2 

7 

163 

45 

263 

II 

482 

63,234.39 

977-75 

9 

1 2 

26 

6 

28 

2 

9 

44 

174 

27 

475 

2 

678 

53,614.10 

5,310.22 

14 

28 

8 

28 

2 

4 

51 

138 

69 

507 

20 

734 

53,682.25 

L  077.70 

1043 .. .. 

184.4. .  . 

10 

19 

3° 

2 

10 

29 

2 

7 

4i 

107 

67 

310 

29 

5i3 

75,938.01 

1,813.56 

2845 ... . 

Q 

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9 

31 

2 

12 

5o 

199 

75 

666 

53 

993 

69,800.05 

2,317.28 

1846 .... 

14 

25 

36 

I 

I 

9 

28 

2 

11 

87 

308 

95 

637 

62 

1,102 

67,416.43 

8,978.10 

1847 .... 

15 

21 

43 

2 

l3 

37 

I 

14 

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264 

72 

745 

84 

1,165 

79,430.82 

3.308.52 

1848. . . . 

1  s 

22 

44 

2 

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38 

4 

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185 

278 

83 

908 

53 

1,322 

82,745.75 

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1840. . . . 

17 

26 

49 

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39 

6 

21 

189 

354 

147 

1,071 

60 

1,632 

93,009.01 

3.285-39 

1850. . . . 

17 

27 

53 

2 

2 

H 

43 

4 

20 

330 

369 

154 

1,232 

i,755 

98,916.59 

5,586.81 

1851 .... 

19 

3° 

52 

2 

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l9 

45 

7 

26 

389 

357 

183 

1,683 

68 

2,29 1 

94,631.82 

7,3i5-8i 

1852 .... 

19 

3° 

53 

2 

I 

22 

5i 

J3 

25 

437 

348 

21 1 

2,057 

69 

2,657 

103.158.53 

10,162.20 

1853. . . . 

21 

34 

54 

2 

I 

21 

48 

22 

30 

492 

322 

215 

2.395 

114 

3,046 

io4, 548.36 

11,190.76 

1854 .... 

21 

38 

56 

2 

I 

25 

57 

22 

3i 

512 

358 

310 

3,002 

166 

3,836 

123,193.03 

8,298.60 

1855 ... . 

2  I 

38 

57 

2 

3i 

60 

24 

43 

672 

363 

328 

3,927 

206 

4,824 

110,706.48 

11,615.82 

1856. . . . 

21 

44 

64 

2 

I 

27 

65 

32 

48 

813 

386 

340 

3,558 

185 

4,469 

118,864.37 

17,340.10 

1857 .... 

22 

46 

70 

2 

2 

29 

69 

33 

63 

908 

404 

336 

3,608 

247 

4,595 

120,919.71 

14,671.57 

1858a. . . 

22 

46 

66 

3 

2 

27 

66 

27 

44 

933 

431 

356 

710 

48 

i,545 

150,951.45 

13,677-52 

1830 .... 

22 

46 

69 

4 

I 

27 

69 

32 

5i 

1,162 

362 

352 

1.475 

151 

2,34° 

134,274.28 

19,354.82 

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23 

56 

82 

6 

I 

24 

81 

32 

73 

2.779 

381 

364 

3,525 

254 

4,524 

i55-346.24 

23,821.58 

1861 b. . . 

21 

57 

75 

6 

5 

25 

81 

24 

75 

2.857 

388 

337 

3,586 

333 

4.644 

i52,o74-97 

13,249.24 

18621:. . . 

21 

58 

66 

2 

2 

18 

54 

II 

80 

681 

327 

I92 

4,025 

248 

4,792 

135,446.82 

7,6 37-“ 

1863. . . . 

21 

59 

6S 

2 

3 

l6 

57 

14 

94 

765 

316 

218 

4.152 

324 

5.010 

i37,75o.6i 

10,152.86 

1864. . . . 

22 

60 

65 

2 

5 

15 

54 

16 

118 

961 

267 

227 

4,014 

402 

4,9ID 

158,488.84 

22,181.31 

1865. . . . 

22 

6l 

63 

4 

1 1 

l6 

58 

18 

I4I 

1,012 

240 

205 

4,708 

574 

5.817 

200,521.27 

34,648.58 

1866. . . . 

22 

63 

66 

9 

8 

17 

59 

*5 

*45 

1. 193 

339 

188 

5,734 

7°4 

6,865 

151,881.85 

17,927.15 

1867 .... 

19 

47 

7° 

x3 

8 

15 

58 

12 

*74 

i,49° 

252 

177 

6,033 

720 

7,182 

194,152.18 

14,957.98 

1868. ... 

20 

47 

79 

12 

IO 

12 

62 

II 

179 

1,616 

274 

184 

5,547 

846 

6,851 

241,766.63 

15,219.79 

1869. . . . 

22 

5° 

83 

13 

IO 

II 

65 

12 

*93 

1,836 

249 

230 

6,076 

867 

7>422 

212,121.14 

88,308.64 

1870 .... 

22 

58 

84 

15 

8 

8 

69 

18 

199 

2,047 

274 

292 

6,045 

854 

7,465 

217,637-51 

23,25i  47 

1871a'. . . 

26 

6l 

III 

18 

23 

12 

91 

28 

378 

3-512 

285 

455 

7,969 

i.35o 

IO>°59 

293,099.06 

17,249.08 

1872 . . . . 

28 

64 

114 

33 

59 

12 

103 

33 

357 

4,202 

258 

447 

8.750 

1,221 

10,681 

377,497-0° 

72,579-35 

1873. . . . 

23 

78 

133 

33 

37 

15 

113 

43 

387 

4.476 

30-1 

399 

7-575 

1,530 

10,961 

380,040.06 

64,875.82 

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23 

83 

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37 

34 

14 

98 

54 

440 

6.272 

484 

475 

8,37i 

3,262 

12,592 

527,537.09 

88,373.89 

1875. . . . 

28 

80 

136 

*  45 

76 

9 

IOI 

59 

396 

6,901 

47i 

582 

8,880 

2,676 

I2,5o9 

396,662.74 

52,405.27 

1876. . . . 

28 

82 

r35 

51 

81 

II 

98 

60 

458 

8,577 

410 

606 

10,121 

2,364 

13,501 

469,691.80 

38,636.89 

1877. . . . 

26 

81 

120 

52 

102 

9 

105 

69 

457 

9,632 

447 

595 

9>T*-3 

3,859 

14,614 

434,460.52 

37,511.26 

1878. . . . 

25 

82 

124 

55 

log 

9 

102 

79 

484 

10,391 

436 

659 

11,028 

3,916 

16,039 

428,768.49 

32,915.81 

1879. . . . 

25 

82 

122 

72 

*15 

9 

103 

85 

5i9 

11,366 

454 

671 

“,737 

4.242 

i7,i°4 

385,127.13 

4o,355-3i 

1880. . . . 

25 

88 

I25 

83 

I47 

II 

III 

98 

516 

12,607 

524 

793 

11,646 

4,828 

17, 791 

445,071.31 

120,104  51 

1881 . . . . 

25 

88 

130 

89 

hi 

13 

117 

103 

516 

14.588 

745 

894 

11,689 

4.932 

18,260 

468,899.74 

111,356.57 

1882. . . . 

28 

91 

I4O 

84 

128 

18 

125 

»5 

607 

16,484 

636 

1,247 

12,743 

5,438 

20,064 

463,645.79 

113,152.59 

1883. . . . 

29 

91 

160 

92 

133 

21 

138 

128 

580 

18,656 

720 

971 

14.407 

5.125 

21,223 

521,369.60 

126.933.59 

1884. . . . 

30 

97 

163 

108 

143 

24 

149 

139 

746 

19,897 

619 

74i 

18,521 

6,033 

25.9M 

574,845.12 

112.551.58 

1885. . . . 

33 

102 

174 

117 

163 

23 

150 

137 

813 

21,051 

1,049 

1,118 

16,451 

6,651 

25,269 

581,067.93 

112,189.77 

1886/.  . . 

33 

106 

172 

122 

164 

29 

162 

135 

73i 

20,294 

1,124 

1,400 

i6,593 

5,027 

24.144 

633,975-02 

111,189.44 

,£87. .. . 

33 

114 

i73 

134 

154 

30 

160 

I  138 

756 

21,420 

855 

1,186 

15,584 

5,704 

23,329 

680,887.75 

103,269.84 

1888. . . . 

3i 

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i77 

151 

169 

28 

162 

I  135 

804 

23,740 

1  982 

1.363 

15,575 

5,850 

23.770 

738,456.27 

162,724.53 

a.  Missionaries  and  scholars  in  India  reduced  by  the  Sepoy  revolt. 

b.  Most  of  the  Southern  Presbyterian  Churches  withdrew  from  the  Board  owing  to  the  civil  war. 

c.  Missions  in  the  Indian  Territory  broken  up  by  the  war  ;  some  of  them  resumed,  1865  and  1881. 

d.  l'he  Seneca,  Lake  Superior,  Chippewa,  Dakota,  Syria  and  Persia  missions,  and  a  number  of 
missionaries,  received  from  the  American  Board. 

e.  Including  $128,503,  special  for  debt. 

f.  Including  $51,474,  special  for  debt. 


An  Act  to  incorporate  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of 
America : 

Passed  April  12,  1862. —  Chapter  187. 


The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York ,  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly ,  do  enact  as  follows: 

Section  i. — Walter  Lowrie,  Gardiner  Spring,  William  W. 
Phillips,  George  Potts,  William  Bannard,  John  D.  Wells, 
Nathan  L.  Rice,  Robert  L.  Stuart,  Lebbeus  B.  Ward,  Robert 
Carter,  John  C.  Lowrie,  citizens  of  the  State  of  New  York,  and 
such  others  as  they  may  associate  with  themselves,  are  hereby 
constituted  a  body  corporate  and  politic  forever,  by  the  name 
of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
in  the  United  States  of  America,  for  the  purpose  of  establishing 
and  conducting  Christian  Missions  among  the  unevangelized 
or  Pagan  nations,  and  the  general  diffusion  of  Christianity , 
and  by  that  name  they  and  their  successors  and  associates 
shall  be  capable  of  taking  by  purchase,  grant,  devise,  or 
otherwise,  holding,  conveying,  or  otherwise  disposing  of  any 
real  or  personal  estate  for  the  purposes  of  the  said  coiporation, 
but  which  estate  within  this  State  shall  not  at  any  time  exceed 
the  annual  income  of  twenty  thousand  dollars. 

Section  2. — The  said  corporation  shall  possess  the  general 
powers,  rights,  and  privileges,  and  be  subject  to  liabilities  and 
provisions  contained  in  the  eighteenth  chapter  of  the  first  part 
of  the  Revised  Statutes,  so  far  as  the  same  is  applicable,  and 
also  subject  to  the  provisions  of  chapter  three  hundred  and 
sixty  of  the  laws  of  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty. 

Section  3.— This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


MISSIONARY  PERIODICALS. 


TJtr  CfctitxJr  at  gUme  aixd  ^trrnad. 

This  magazine  contains  a  Foreign  Missionary  Department  conducted  by 
the  Secretaries  of  the  Board,  and  is  published  monthly  by  the  Board  of 
Publication  and  Sabbath-school  Work.  Price,  $1.00  per  annum.  Rev.  Henry 
A.  Nelson,  D.D.,  Editor ;  John  A.  Black,  Business  Superintendent,  1334 
Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


(Utt Oman's  ftotovk  for  Woman 


AND 


This  periodical  is  published  monthly,  under  the  direction  ot  all  the 
Women’s  Boards  and  Societies,  at  the  Mission  House,  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New 
York.  Terms,  60  cents  per  annum ,  including  postage,  and  payable  in  advance. 
No  club  rates.  All  orders  and  subscriptions  should  be  addressed  to  Woman's 
Work  for  Woman  and  Our  Mission  Field ,  53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  ;  and 
all  communications  for  the  Editor  to  Miss  Ellen  C.  Parsons,  same  address. 


(Thitrtvcn's  Mlovk  for  CltiMren. 

This  is  an  illustrated  magazine  for  children,  published  monthly  under  the 
joint  direction  of  all  the  Woman’s  Boards  and  Societies  at  the  Publication 
House,  1334  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia.  Price,  33  cents  per  year ;  clubs 
of  five,  addressed  to  one  person,  25  cents.  Subscriptions  should  be  sent  to 
Children's  Work  for  Children ,  and  communications  for  the  Editor  to  Miss  Mary 
I.  Lombard,  1334  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia. 


MISSIONARY  MAP  OF  THE  WORLD. 

Size,  12  by  7  feet.  New  edition,  beautifully  colored,  and  showing  all  the 
Stations  of  the  Presbyterian  Board.  Price,  $4,00,  which  includes  postage. 
Address, 

Wm.  Rankin,  Treasurer, 

53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


Since  this  sketch  was  presented  to  the  Assembly  Mr.  Gilbert  K.  Harroun 
has  entered  upon  his  duties  as  Treasurer  of  the  Board.  All  communications 
pertaining  to  the  finances  should  be  addressed  to 

The  Treasurer  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions, 

53  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 


